Iconic images: The American soldier

This Veterans Day, let's take a look back at the American soldier.

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Bundled against the chill a U.S. Marine reports to his headquarters on a radiotelephone during operation Kentucky near the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam on Dec. 11, 1967. Monsoon rains and temperatures that drop into the 40s and 50s at night make life miserable for the U.S. soldiers in the Northern provinces.

Dag VAn Phuoc/AP

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Bundled against the chill a U.S. Marine reports to his headquarters on a radiotelephone during operation Kentucky near the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam on Dec. 11, 1967. Monsoon rains and temperatures that drop into the 40s and 50s at night make life miserable for the U.S. soldiers in the Northern provinces.